Fresh into the scene of URL shortening is a local service sURLs. Created by South African Arné Klopper, he is offering a free service whereby you can turn ugly URLs into short and easy to remember equivalents. Okay, bacically, when you are on the internet and you find a cool site, for example Google Maps(maps.google.com) [...]

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We had a very specific and hard to solve problem on Drupal 6.8 lately where cron wouldn’t run; after some searching we tracked down this error: “Cron run exceeded the time limit and was aborted”. However, it was only running for about 2 seconds before this happened – and it was allowed to run for [...]

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I spent a chunk of the weekend working on a new WordPress theme which I’m currently calling Entropy. It’s gray/red and pretty neat and straight forward with a grungy feel. I haven’t even started on the single post/page look and feel; but the front page is nearing completion aside from the tag cloud etc. If [...]

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I’ve recently stumbled into a list of 45 fantastic free fonts for designers at Six Revisions. As they correctly say there are a lot of free fonts available on the web if you know where to look; but some are definately better than others and they’ve got some excellent samples. Folks TT is among my [...]

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If you have ever used jQuery before I’m sure you’ve noticed that one of its best features is the way you can chain together functions. For example: // No Chaining $(’#divId’).removeClass(’active’); $(’#divId’).addClass(’inactive’);   // Chaining $(’#divId’).removeClass(’active’).addClass(’inactive’); What you not might know is that this is also possible in PHP, specifically with classes you may be [...]

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Anyone that codes knows what an if statement is and how important they are in getting a job done. Sometimes though you can have a very simple if statement that is only one line, for example < ?php if($loggedin) $member_bar = ‘Welcome back ‘.$username; else $member_bar = ‘Please login’; ?> As you can see this [...]

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Vertigo Project have just released RedLine Racing, a cool side scrolling jQuery (javascript) game you can play without flash! Check it out Related articles by Zemanta jQuery.popeye – An Inline Image Gallery Reglib and jQuery Demo Making Progress jQuery Racing Game? gameQuery

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Another info packed post with some exciting news making waves in the technology world. 3G iPhone update Vista – uptake inevitable Twitter rising Javascript curvy corners Worthy mentions 3G iPhone update We have reported previously on speculation regarding the launch date of the 3G iPhone, now more information is starting to filter through. One hot [...]

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Firefox is without a doubt the future of the internet browser. This however doesn’t mean that IE will disappear completely – as much as most web developers wish it would. It has happened to most developers where you get your new app running peachy in Firefox, but the second you open it in IE you [...]

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Seeing as I haven’t posted anything for a couple of days, I thought I would make one post with all the things that have caught my eye. Maximize Firefox without extensions Gmail hacks for better spam protection 7 of the best designed sites on the web 60 AJAX/Javascript resources for professional coding 3 ways to [...]

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